royal blue
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- noun
- /ˈrɔɪəl blu/
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- You are serene and newly confident in your royal blue silk pants and red silk jacket.
- royal blue dress
- royal blue shirt
- royal blue silk
Electric sapphire, a super pretty royal blue and then rose gold.
- Electric sapphire, a super pretty royal blue and then rose gold.
- It's a beautiful Navy royal blue.
Examples
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They have everything from royal blue coats and eye-catching green handbags to highly pigmented beauty essentials.
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Behind the Horse Guards came Prince Sergey’s baggage wagons, big gilt-covered gypsy caravans trimmed in royal blue.
Fiction book (2000) -
The color of the pen that I hold in my hand is... royal blue!
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I laid out my royal blue suit. Do you remember my royal blue suit?
Fiction book (1999) -
Here is a larger look at the team logo in royal blue:
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So I also got this shirt in this royal blue color and then also this middle toned green color.
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These cream white seats with these royal blue accents and the spider web like stitching on the seats.
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Today he wore a gray-blue sport coat over a royal-blue dress shirt, stonewashed jeans, and cowboy boots.
Fiction book (1999) -
Fifteen minutes before the game, we were clomping over to the football stadium, clad in our stiff, royal-blue polyester pants and tall fuzzy hats.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Duchess wore a stunning royal blue creation of hers for last week's reception at Kensington Palace.
Synonyms
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A deep blue color that has a slight purple hint like a clear autumn sky
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Deep blue with a little purple like a clear autumn sky
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Has a bright deep blue color like the sea
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A blue color with a little purple in it
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A deep bright blue like a clear sky
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Having a deep purplish-blue color between blue and purple
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A blue color with a little purple in it
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A blue color with a little purple
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A blue color with a purple tint
A violet color with a little blue
A purple color with a little blue mixed in
Purple with a touch of blue
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Morphology
The phrase combines 'royal' (of or relating to monarchy, implying richness) with 'blue' (the color), so its meaning as a rich, deep shade of blue associated with royalty is directly inferable from the constituents. This compositional color-name pattern is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words would very likely understand it as a particular kind of blue even if they don’t know the exact hue.
Etymology
Royal blue may come from the deep blue cloth once worn by kings and queens; the word royal points to royalty and blue to the rich color, so today it means 'a deep, rich blue often with a purple tint'.